Frappe

Carnival Fritters

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    8

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Italian Regional Cookbook

By Valentina Harris

Published 2017

  • About

During Carnival, people have always celebrated out on the streets, especially on Shrove Tuesday and the Thursday after Ash Wednesday, or Giovedi Grasso in Italian. This is the last important opportunity for a lot of noise and fun before the rigours of Lent really set in. Many types of street food, or at least food that was once cooked on the streets, are attached in some way to this period, most of them sweet and deep-fried in oil according to tradition. This particular recipe is from Le Ma